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  Encyclopedia: Ob River
The Katun River (Катунь in Russian) is a river in the Altai Krai in Russia.
, the Tym and the Vakh The Vakh River (Вах in Russian) is a river in Khantia-Mansia (Tyumen Oblast) in Russia.
The Biya River (Бия in Russian) is a river in the Altai Krai in Russia.
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 Encyclopedia topic: Tom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A "Tom" or "Uncle Tom (A servile fl character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe) ", African-American (An American whose ancestors were born in Africa) slang for an obsequious, servile, or witless person.
Tom River (additional info and facts about Tom River) in eastern Russia (A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state), tributary to the Ob River (A major river of western Siberia; flows generally northward and westward to the Gulf of Ob and the Kara Sea).
Tom River, Amur Oblast (additional info and facts about Tom River, Amur Oblast) in far eastern Russia (A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state), tributary to the Zeya River (additional info and facts about Zeya River).
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 Land Resources of Russia
Rivers belong to the Volga and the Dnieper basins.
Kamchatskaya Oblast is situated on Kamchatka peninsula; it is washed by the Sea of Okhotsk, the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean.
The structure of the cultivated land in 1998 are: 20.5% cereal crops (mainly in the south of the oblast); 0.2% industrial crops; 12.6% potatoes and vegetables (especially in the south-east of the oblast); and 66.7% fodder crops.
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 Encyclopedia topic: Tom River   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
For the river Tom in the Amur basin see Tom River, Amur Oblast (additional info and facts about Tom River, Amur Oblast)
Tom (Томь) is a river in Russia (A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state), right tributary (A branch that flows into the main stream) of Ob (A major river of western Siberia; flows generally northward and westward to the Gulf of Ob and the Kara Sea).
Cities on the Tom River include Mezhdurechensk, Novokuznetsk (additional info and facts about Novokuznetsk), Kemerovo (additional info and facts about Kemerovo) and Tomsk (additional info and facts about Tomsk).
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 Tom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A "Tom" or "Uncle Tom", African-American slang for an obsequious, servile, or witless person.
Tom River in eastern Russia, tributary to the Ob River.
Tom River, Amur Oblast in far eastern Russia, tributary to the Zeya River.
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 MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Russia
Many other streams and rivers are significant because they serve as transportation routes or power sources in densely populated areas, or because their waters are used for irrigation.
Some areas, such as the Kuznetsk Basin on the Tom’ River in southern Siberia, the industrial belt along the southern portion of the Ural Mountains, and the lower Volga River, were degraded beyond repair.
The eastward-flowing Amur River is the chief navigable river of the far eastern region.
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 Tom River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the river Tom in the Amur basin see Tom River, Amur Oblast.
Tom (Томь) is a river in Russia, right tributary of Ob.
Cities on the Tom River include Mezhdurechensk, Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo and Tomsk.
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 Tom Harkin Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
* A character in the cartoon series ''Tom and Jerry (cartoon)Tom and Jerry''.
* Tom River in eastern Russia, tributary to the Ob River.
* Tom River, Amur Oblast in far eastern Russia, tributary to the Zeya River.
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 World ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Irkutsk oblast is the only one among these regions which has preserved their product mix, but only at its very end.
The Tom' river basin serves as a gigantic collector of the waste waters of most cities, settlements and industrial enterprises of Kemerovo oblast.
The scale of contamination of the Tom' river is so high, that any expected self-cleaning does not occur even 300 kilometers downstream from the city of Kemerovo.
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 Ethnologue: Russia, Asia
(CHULYM-TURKISH, CHULIM, MELETS TATAR, CHULYM TATAR) [CHU] Basin of the Chulym River north of the Altay Mts., a tributary of the Ob River.
Northwest Siberia, tundra area from the mouth of the northern Dvina River in northeastern Europe to the delta of the Yenisei in Asia, and a scattering on the Kola Peninsula; Nenets, Yamalo-Nenets, and Taimyr national okrugs.
Tom Oblast, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, Krasnoyarski krai and Tomskaya oblast.
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 Search Results for Zeya - Encyclopædia Britannica
Situated in the Zeya-Bureya Plain and on the Tom River, it was founded in 1860 and became a city in 1926.
It is situated on the right bank of the Zeya River, which is a tributary of the Amur River, and on the...
The Amur proper begins at the confluence of the Shilka and the Argun (Ergun) rivers, 1,755 miles (2,824...
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 Transsib Handbook - Records
Amur is the widest of them (nearly 2 km, left photo), because the railroad crosses it in the middle flow.
Such large rivers as Ob and Enisei are crossed by the railroad near to their upper flow.
One must admit that the river most damaged Trans-Siberian way for all its history is Transbaikal river Khilok - during waterflood of 1897 it washed out and demolished most part of western section of Transbaikal line.
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 Russia
In the southeast the Amur River is flanked in the north by the Bureya Range and in the south by the Sikhote-Alin'.
Along the Amur is the fertile Zeya-Bureya Plain, and along the Ussuri River, a right-bank tributary of the Amur, is the Ussuri Lowland.
Other concentrated urban areas include the banks of the Volga River, the Donets Coal Basin industrial zone, the mining and industrial centers of the Ural Mountains, the Kuznetsk Coal Basin east of the Urals, and a number of widely separated towns along the entire length of the Trans-Siberian Railroad.
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 Tom River, Amur Oblast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Tom (Томь) is a a river in Russia, left tributary of the river Zeya.
Its source is near the border between Amur Oblast and Khabarovsk Krai.
It flows into the Zeya (itself a tributary of the Amur) between Svobodny and Blagoveshchensk.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/Tom-River,-Amur-Oblast.htm   (139 words)

  
 Russia - Tomsk Region - RussiaTrek.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Most of the oblast's 314,400 sq km territory is inaccessible because it is covered with taiga woods.
Forests are also among the most significant assets of the oblast: about 20% of the West Siberian forest resources are located in Tomsk Oblast.
Tomsk, administrative centre of the region, was built as a fortress on the river the Tom in 1604.
www.russiatrek.com /r_tomsk.shtml   (327 words)

  
 Global Greengrants Fund :: Grants :: Grant List
To fund an evaluation of the health of the Pyshma River, to publicize the results, to organize clean-up actions, and to hold seminars for fishermen who use the river.
To fund scientific study of ecological conditions in the Charysh River, to monitor ongoing water quality, to inform the public and public officials, and to develop recommendations for improving the river.
To reduce pollution of the Yenisei River from a petroleum refinery in Krasnoyarsk by assessing and mapping the pollution and studying the feasibility of rebuilding or moving the facility.
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 Assessment of Mercury Releases from the Russian Federation – 4 Mobilisation of Mercury Impurities
Considering that the estimate of the total mercury content in coal is dependent on its average concentrations used for a few of the regions, the uncertainty on the average is estimated to be rather high in spite of the large number of available factual data.
Content of mercury in oil shale of the Leningrad Oblast is estimated at 0.4 mg/kg on the average, similar to oil shale from Estonia (Table 4.30), since these two facilities belong to the same Baltic basin of oil shale; conventionally – along the administrative border between Russian and Estonia, which separates these two deposits.
In Tyumen Oblast, in the area of intensively used oil and gas fields, the background mercury content in peat soils is within 0.01-0.3 mg/kg, the average values being 0.2-0.25 mg/kg (Dorozhukova et al.
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 MISSIO IMMACULATAE: Missionary Page of the Franciscans of the Immaculate
From the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea to Big Diomede Island (Ratmanov Island) in the Bering Strait, Russia's maximum east-west extent is almost 10,000 km (6,200 mi), a distance encompassing 11 time zones and spanning nearly half the circumference of the Earth.
The Volga, located in European Russia, is the country's fourth longest river and the longest river in Europe.
As a result, the rivers retain even more of the pollutants that are discharged into their waters, and the spawning grounds of sturgeon and other fish have been greatly reduced.
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 Russia Subjects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Russia is divided into one avtonomnaya oblast' (autonomous region); ten avtonomnyy okrug (autonomous province); two gorod ([federal] city); six kray (territory); 49 oblast' (region); and 21 respublika (republic).
Tom Christoffel pointed out to me a report on "A History of Russian Administrative Boundaries".
The gubernia was supplanted by the oblast', the uezd by the raion, and the volost' by the sel'soviet (rural council).
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 v16n2
The Russians succeeded in establishing military authority over the native people in Kamchatka, but it was not until the Soviet era that Russians achieved their goal of consolidating the dispersed natives into towns and villages and instituting agriculture as opposed to fishing and hunting, as the principle lifestyle.
During my fieldwork along the Kamchatka River basin in 1997-98, the most prevalent fishing implements were a certain type of net referred to as a 'television' and a gaffing hook called a 'computer'.
The hooks lie on the bottom of the river and the men stand watching for a fish to swim over, at which point they quickly jerk the hooks up and in one motion haul the fish out of the water and onto the bank.
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 Assessment of Mercury Releases from the Russian Federation – Annex 3 Mercury in Coal from the Main Basins
A KO Note: In Rostov Oblast the Donetsk Basin includes its eastern area, basically anthracite regions: Gukovo-Zverevskiy, Krasnodonetskiy, Sulino-Sadkinsjiy, Tsymlyanskiy, Shakhtinsko-Nesvetayevskiy, Zadonskiy coal fields; a smaller role is played by caking and thin coal regions: Kamensko-Gundorovskiy, Belokalitvesnkiy and Tatsinskiy.
Note: Chelyabinsk brown coal basin is located on the eastern slope of the South Urals within Chelyabinsk Oblast, representing a narrow strip with the width up to 15 km, expended almost parallel to the Ural ridge over 170 km, from Techa River in the north to Uy River in the south.
Note: The South-Ural basin integrates multiple brown coal fields of the tertiary age; located in the Republic of Bashkortostan and Orenburg Oblast; the basin extends along the meridian for 350 km and has the width of 70-80 km.
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 24 Jun History: This Date   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This episode of the war was dramatized in extraordinary fashion in the 1957 film Bridge on the River Kwai, directed by David Lean, and starring Alec Guinness and William Holden.
Stalked by hunger and the deadly lances of the Cossacks, the decimated army reached the Berezina River late in November, and found their way blocked by the Russians.
On 27 November, Napoléon forced a way across at Studenka, but when the bulk of his army passed the river two days later, he was forced to burn his makeshift bridges behind him, stranding some 10'000 stragglers on the other side.
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 Endgame Directory of Transnational Corporations
The cyanide has already killed nearly all life in the Tisza River, and the scope of the incident is being compared to the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Serbia's agriculture minister on Feb. 18 revoked its ban on drinking water from the Danube and Tisza rivers, but the Romanian Environment Ministry said earlier in the day that contamination levels of cyanide and heavy metals in the Danube were three times the acceptable amount allowed by the European Union.
Concentrations of lead in the Tisza River, a tributary of the Danube, were double the European Union's safety norms this week, the Romanian environment ministry reported.
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 Global Greengrants Fund :: Grants :: Grant List
To fund a student-led program to improve the condition of local rivers, lakes and springs in the Chita region.
To restore and protect the lakes and wetlands at the mouth of the Irkutsk River and to create a pollution watch, build interpretive trails and conduct outreach.
To support the Source Society, a group of five science teachers and 50 high school children working to attract public and government attention to the dire condition of the Tom' River.
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 Circumpolar News - March 2003
Deliveries are not possible during the remainder of the year due to the river being frozen.
According to head of the Ust-Kamchatski district Boris Nevzorov, the thawing of the snow on the warmed cupola of the volcano had caused a flood of the Bekesh river.
Similarly, in Tyumen Oblast, oil-and-gas barons reportedly supported current Governor Sergei Sobyanin instead of the former Governor Leonid Roketskii, who favored a merger between the oblast and the Khanty-Mansii and Yamalo-Nenets autonomous okrugs, the weekly claims.
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 BigSoccer Boards - Russian Premier League Guide, v. 3.0
The Krasnodar Region, located on the banks of the Kuban River (hence the name of the club) is the homeland of Kuban Cossacks (the closest the Russians came in producing their own samurai culture) and the traditional Russian breadbasket of footballing talent.
FK Tom’ Tomsk is a new promotee to the RPL in 2005, having earned promotion by virtue of finishing 2nd in the Russian 1st division in 2004..
Tom (1988-present) = a river in the Tomsk region, yielding its name to the city.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Kemerovo seems like a quite pleasant town with the Tom river making a nice spot to walk along, watch from our hotel window or just sit down and watch while sipping a beer at the numerous beer tents.
We reached Taishet, in Irkutsk oblast, which means another hour time difference, which could mean one hour less to cycle, but not really – the sun sets the limit more than the clock.
I left Irkutsk oblast in the evening and entered The Republic of Buryatia at a river near the village of Vydrino.
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 Russia content   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Ob' River and its tributaries flow slowly across this massive tableinto the Arctic Ocean.
There are also fisheries on inland lakes and rivers, including considerable fish farming.
The influence of the so-called Hordewas felt almost everywhere in Russia.
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 Ice-Floe: Contributors A - D   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Randol Bruns was born in Colorado and arrived in Alaska in 1979 to canoe down the Yukon River.
Lyubov Demina was born in 1950 in the village of Balygychan on the banks of Kolyma River.
Alexander Dyatala (1932-1977), an Ulcha from the lower reaches of the Amur River, was educated as a painter.
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